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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
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Liberal eugenics, coercion and social pressure
Enrahonar: Quaderns de FilosofiaWhen discussing genetic prenatal enhancement, we often encounter objections related to “eugenics.” Those who want to defend prenatal enhancement either try to avoid using the term “eugenics” or talk about “liberal eugenics”, implying that what was wrong
Blanca Rodríguez López
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Legacy and the Politics of Racial Terminology
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When a term carries a sordid past, it is tempting to think it should have no future use. Yet the normative life of a word is rarely exhausted by its origins. This article develops legacy analysis as a method for enriching evaluation of what should be done with historically burdened terms. Rather than treating origins as decisive, the framework
Paul‐Mikhail Catapang Podosky
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Fritz Scheffer Under National Socialism: Assessing His Political Involvement
Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims This article examines the role of soil scientist Fritz Scheffer (1899–1979) under National Socialism and offers a critical assessment of his scientific, institutional, and political positioning between 1933 and 1945. It asks how Scheffer shaped his career within the tension between disciplinary specialization, political expectations, and ...
Jan Arend
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Eugenics between Darwin’s Εra and the Holocaust
Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, 2019 Heredity and reproduction have always been matters of concern. Eugenics is a story that began well before the Holocaust, but the Holocaust completely changed the way eugenics was perceived at that time.
Dimitra Chousou +5 more
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The Hippo pathway in endometrial cancer: a potential therapeutic target?
Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 Endometrial cancer, one of the most prevalent malignant cancers tumors of the female reproductive tract, has been increasing in incidence and mortality rates around the world.
Xinyun Shen +13 more
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Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.Abstract Limited engagement between Black Americans and wildlife is often treated as cultural disinterest rather than the outcome of historical exclusion, racialized trauma, or persistent structural barriers. This perspective obscures the long‐standing relationships Black communities have had with land, agriculture, and conservation, and constrains ...
Maya Walker +2 more
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La sabiduría de los fabricantes de sombreros. La inteligencia en la eugenesia chilena
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2014 This paper develops an approach to intelligence in the context of the theory of degeneration and eugenics in Chile. The degenerationists ideas of physicians Luis Vergara, Florentino Caro and Augusto Orrego Luco, which circulated in the late nineteenth ...
Marcelo Sánchez
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